You just have to admire Norwich
Plus, they were in £60million debt whilst in the Championship.
Norwich cant help the geographical position the argument is lost with the likes of Plymouth
I like the club to be honest and no harm really
FAIR PLAY TO THEM
Argument isn't lost by stating Plymouth, much smaller population in the west of the country, and an area more commonly associated with rugby. Plus the fact plymouth had very little success until a few years ago and are now in absolute disarray. Norwich and Ipswich are huge rivals are are over an hours drive away from one another. The sphere of influence is a term used to refer to how much a place (town, city) influences the surrounding population, e.g. do the people living in a village 10 miles away from coventry go there to shop, for example. This model is absolutely appropriate to football clubs. The issue with Coventry is that we haven't finished in the top 6 of any division in over 40 years, essentially meaning we've had 40 years of mediocre to poor levels of success (bar '87) and that will result in young fans turning their nose up at supporting the club and instead glory hunting.
Argument isn't lost by stating Plymouth, much smaller population in the west of the country, and an area more commonly associated with rugby. Plus the fact plymouth had very little success until a few years ago and are now in absolute disarray. Norwich and Ipswich are huge rivals are are over an hours drive away from one another. The sphere of influence is a term used to refer to how much a place (town, city) influences the surrounding population, e.g. do the people living in a village 10 miles away from coventry go there to shop, for example. This model is absolutely appropriate to football clubs. The issue with Coventry is that we haven't finished in the top 6 of any division in over 40 years, essentially meaning we've had 40 years of mediocre to poor levels of success (bar '87) and that will result in young fans turning their nose up at supporting the club and instead glory hunting.
Are you saying the population of Plymouth and surrounding 40 miles is less than Norwich ??
Can you name the rugby club so famous in the near area of 40 miles
Plymouth had a small stadium which when i went was quite full 14000 av on a 20K gate
carry on ........
Argument isn't lost by stating Plymouth, much smaller population in the west of the country, and an area more commonly associated with rugby. Plus the fact plymouth had very little success until a few years ago and are now in absolute disarray. Norwich and Ipswich are huge rivals are are over an hours drive away from one another. The sphere of influence is a term used to refer to how much a place (town, city) influences the surrounding population, e.g. do the people living in a village 10 miles away from coventry go there to shop, for example. This model is absolutely appropriate to football clubs. The issue with Coventry is that we haven't finished in the top 6 of any division in over 40 years, essentially meaning we've had 40 years of mediocre to poor levels of success (bar '87) and that will result in young fans turning their nose up at supporting the club and instead glory hunting.
Cornish Pirates, currently near the top of rugby's 2nd tier. Plymouth have not been in the top flight for a very long time either, unlike Norwich who have been there on a semi-regular basis to boost crowds. Give any club the decades of non achievement that Coventry City have had, couple it with 4 similar or bigger clubs within 20 miles, and the crowds would be essentially the same. Difficult to tell though, because no other club has done nothing for so long.
I think you're slightly misinterpreting my point Duffy-I'm not saying that geography is the only reason behind Norwich's resurgance. The reason for big attendances in the '80s could simply be put down to top flight football combined with the cup success and , bar 3 consecutive last day escapes, a stable league position.
1979-80 - 19,318 (19th of 22) - Norwich 17,225 (21st of 22)
1980-81 - 16,904 (20th of 22) - Norwich 17,140(19th of 22)
1981-82 - 13,100 (21st of 22) - Norwich in Div 2
1982-83 - 10,552 (21st of 22) - Norwich 16,862 (14th of 22)
1983-84 - 12,572 (19th of 22) - Norwich 15,695 (13th of 22)
1984-85 - 12,848 (20th of 22) - Norwich 15,100 (16th of 22)
1985-86 - 11,590 (19th of 22) - Norwich in Div 2
1986-87 - 16,120 (14th of 22) - Norwich 17,568 (13th of 22)
1987-88 - 17,509 (11th of 21) - Norwich 15,942 (13th of 21)
1988-89 - 16,061 (14th of 20). - Norwich 16,783 (13th of 20)
Only 2 seasons did we have a better average attendance than Norwich in the 1980's in Div 1.
I said they averaged around 1,500 more an us and the early 80's you can discount as our average attendance was restricted by ground issues. It was still similar at the turn of this century. They have always had a ground capacity of 25,000 plus and it is only in the last few years their gates have reached full capacity.
In 1981 Highfield Road was converted into England's first ever all-seater stadium with a capacity of around 24,500.
I do accept you as the stats expert on here but that cannot be right, I sat in the Kop in the 1981 season and 80% of it was shut. The capacity was much lower than that.
Got it from wiki, so is probably wrong! I suppose the point was, for a city our size and if you include Warwickshire that's a catchment area of about 800k. We are and have been for a while now a poorly followed side.
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